June 23, 2008

Journal #13 - Recording, the novel, and species fascism

Filed under: Uncategorized — Justin @ 2:52 pm

Well… it’s been over a week since we started recording, and we’re still stuck on the first song/chapter, The Beckoning. I’ll never figure out how it is that I came to love electro music so much since electronic things seem to hate me.
I’ve made much progress on the Novel though. I have a new job that pretty much gives me insane amounts of time to do whatever I want while at a desk with a computer. So I write. I’m tempted to post the prologue for some of your more curious types, but I think it would be jumping the gun a bit, so you’ll just have to wait.
There’s not a whole lot else going on, except me thinking about meat. I think I’ve blogged about it before, but what the heck, I want to write about it anyway.
…….. As far as we know there is only 2 ways fuel our bodies and stay alive.
1) Killing other living things and consuming their flesh for energy and assimilation, or…
2) Maiming other living things to do the same.
Either way I’ve heard it defined as species fascism. The funny thing to me is we can’t survive without taking what isn’t ours. Even if you just trim some leaves to eat, that plant didn’t grow those leaves for you to eat! It grew thoses leaves to sustain itself! Who are you to decide what living organisms have the more rights than others?! If you could cut off cow’s limbs and they would grow back would you do it? What it comes down to is it’s a cutthrought world. Eat or be eaten. There’s no way around it.
Now, I did think of a way that I could be wrong…. It seems to me that berries and some other fruits are grown specifically to be eaten. As if they’re made so that we’ll go “Oooooh! Shiny, colorful, juicy! I want to eat it so that I can then distribute the seeds wtih fertilizer around the world!” But if you know I’m wrong please correct me. Berries and some fruits are the only things that I can think of that might actually “want” to be eaten. But can you live off of only berries and fruits? C’mon people! Share your intelligent come backs with me!!!

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